[HPforGrownups] Re: Re: A HBP Clue?

[Janet Anderson]

No: HPFGUIDX 105132

Cathy Drolet <cldrolet at sympatico.ca> points out:

>Percy wasn't down there snooping or investigating.  Just a bit before, 
>Penelope Clearwater had come out of that same area.  He was down there with 
>her.  We find out later the girl Harry & Ron met as Crabbe and Goyle was 
>Penelope when they see her in the Hospital wing.  Later still, we find out 
>Percy and Penelope were meeting all over the school and Ginny ran into them 
>somewhere.  Why was it so important for Percy to keep his relationship with 
>Penny hidden?  Now, there's a question.  Is Penny muggle-born (I think 
>so...TR said that killing muggle-borns isn't what he was interested in any 
>more, it was Harry).  Is Percy afraid his family will be upset by it, or 
>just doesn't want to be teased to death by F&G?

The simplest explanation is that he wants to avoid aggravation from Fred and 
George, and I think that's the way it starts out.  However, it is possible 
that if the relationship is still going on, he is keeping it quiet because 
she is a muggle-born, as you say.  Percy knows perfectly well his family 
won't care -- but he also knows that influential people in and around the 
Ministry of Magic probably would care -- and this is important to him.  I 
hope that isn't why, because if it is, it's one more indication that Percy 
is going downhill in a big way.


Janet Anderson

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